Study of ice content and hydro-mechanical behaviour of frozen soils
Aplicat embargament des de la data de defensa fins el dia de publicació. The hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils during freezing and thawing is a coupled multi-physics process that has important practical applications. To cite but a few examples, on artificial ground freezing –to provide structural...
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil Unsaturated frozen soil Ice content Thermal conductivity Electrical resistivity tomography THM coupling Suelo congelado parcialmente saturado Contenido de hielo Permitividad dieléctrica relativa Conductividad térmica Acoplamiento THM Mecànica de fluids Anàlisi tèrmica Tomografia |
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil Unsaturated frozen soil Ice content Thermal conductivity Electrical resistivity tomography THM coupling Suelo congelado parcialmente saturado Contenido de hielo Permitividad dieléctrica relativa Conductividad térmica Acoplamiento THM Mecànica de fluids Anàlisi tèrmica Tomografia Mao, Yanxin Study of ice content and hydro-mechanical behaviour of frozen soils |
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Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil Unsaturated frozen soil Ice content Thermal conductivity Electrical resistivity tomography THM coupling Suelo congelado parcialmente saturado Contenido de hielo Permitividad dieléctrica relativa Conductividad térmica Acoplamiento THM Mecànica de fluids Anàlisi tèrmica Tomografia |
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Aplicat embargament des de la data de defensa fins el dia de publicació. The hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils during freezing and thawing is a coupled multi-physics process that has important practical applications. To cite but a few examples, on artificial ground freezing –to provide structural support and exclude the groundwater from underground constructions–, on seasonal variations of permafrost soils and their consequences on infrastructures, on geocomposite capillary barriers used to reduce frost heave in soils, and on engineered barriers subjected to freezing and thawing processes. Despite this importance, ice content and its migration process, as well as the coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour have not been extensively studied in partially saturated frozen soils. In these soils, ice formation increases the number of phases and the complexity of the experimental studies. In this thesis, the unfrozen liquid saturation and the hydro-mechanical behaviour of two frozen soils (Barcelona clayey silt and fine sand) have been investigated at different initial degrees of saturation. A series of experimental setups have been designed and built to perform the tests (oedometer cell installed in a freezing/thawing chamber to control the temperature up to -15°C; setup for freezing cylindrical samples in an electrical resistivity tomography ERT cell with 16 lateral electrodes). Different methods have been considered and several models proposed in the thesis to indirectly determine the unfrozen liquid saturation of compacted soils at different temperatures, porosities and initial degrees of saturation. The methods rely on measurements during transient freezing of the bulk electrical conductivity EC, relative dielectric permittivity, and thermal conductivity. In the case of EC tests, the unfrozen liquid saturation results have been interpreted with a modified Archie’s law and compared to the electrical conductivity of the pore liquid. The soil freezing retention curve (unfrozen liquid saturation vs temperature) has ... |
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Study of ice content and hydro-mechanical behaviour of frozen soils |
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Mao, Y. Study of ice content and hydro-mechanical behaviour of frozen soils. Tesi doctoral, UPC, Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental, 2018. DOI 10.5821/dissertation-2117-134626 . http://hdl.handle.net/2117/134626 doi:10.5821/dissertation-2117-134626 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667039 |
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ftupcatalunyair:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/134626 2024-09-15T18:11:39+00:00 Study of ice content and hydro-mechanical behaviour of frozen soils Mao, Yanxin Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental Gens Solé, Antonio Romero Morales, Enrique Edgar 2018-09-06 272 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2117/134626 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667039 https://doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-134626 eng eng Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Mao, Y. Study of ice content and hydro-mechanical behaviour of frozen soils. Tesi doctoral, UPC, Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental, 2018. DOI 10.5821/dissertation-2117-134626 . http://hdl.handle.net/2117/134626 doi:10.5821/dissertation-2117-134626 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667039 ADVERTIMENT. L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi doctoral i la seva utilització ha de respectar els drets de la persona autora. Pot ser utilitzada per a consulta o estudi personal, així com en activitats o materials d'investigació i docència en els termes establerts a l'art. 32 del Text Refós de la Llei de Propietat Intel·lectual (RDL 1/1996). Per altres utilitzacions es requereix l'autorització prèvia i expressa de la persona autora. En qualsevol cas, en la utilització dels seus continguts caldrà indicar de forma clara el nom i cognoms de la persona autora i el títol de la tesi doctoral. No s'autoritza la seva reproducció o altres formes d'explotació efectuades amb finalitats de lucre ni la seva comunicació pública des d'un lloc aliè al servei TDX. Tampoc s'autoritza la presentació del seu contingut en una finestra o marc aliè a TDX (framing). Aquesta reserva de drets afecta tant als continguts de la tesi com als seus resums i índexs. Open Access TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa) Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil Unsaturated frozen soil Ice content Thermal conductivity Electrical resistivity tomography THM coupling Suelo congelado parcialmente saturado Contenido de hielo Permitividad dieléctrica relativa Conductividad térmica Acoplamiento THM Mecànica de fluids Anàlisi tèrmica Tomografia Doctoral thesis 2018 ftupcatalunyair https://doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-134626 2024-07-25T11:11:46Z Aplicat embargament des de la data de defensa fins el dia de publicació. The hydro-mechanical behaviour of soils during freezing and thawing is a coupled multi-physics process that has important practical applications. To cite but a few examples, on artificial ground freezing –to provide structural support and exclude the groundwater from underground constructions–, on seasonal variations of permafrost soils and their consequences on infrastructures, on geocomposite capillary barriers used to reduce frost heave in soils, and on engineered barriers subjected to freezing and thawing processes. Despite this importance, ice content and its migration process, as well as the coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour have not been extensively studied in partially saturated frozen soils. In these soils, ice formation increases the number of phases and the complexity of the experimental studies. In this thesis, the unfrozen liquid saturation and the hydro-mechanical behaviour of two frozen soils (Barcelona clayey silt and fine sand) have been investigated at different initial degrees of saturation. A series of experimental setups have been designed and built to perform the tests (oedometer cell installed in a freezing/thawing chamber to control the temperature up to -15°C; setup for freezing cylindrical samples in an electrical resistivity tomography ERT cell with 16 lateral electrodes). Different methods have been considered and several models proposed in the thesis to indirectly determine the unfrozen liquid saturation of compacted soils at different temperatures, porosities and initial degrees of saturation. The methods rely on measurements during transient freezing of the bulk electrical conductivity EC, relative dielectric permittivity, and thermal conductivity. In the case of EC tests, the unfrozen liquid saturation results have been interpreted with a modified Archie’s law and compared to the electrical conductivity of the pore liquid. The soil freezing retention curve (unfrozen liquid saturation vs temperature) has ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Ice permafrost Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge |